Buffalo Bills Ole Smokies - Big Buffalo

Buffalo Bills has been a favorite brand of mine, mostly due to their wide varieties of meat snacks, including at least four lines of jerky, and several lines of meat sticks.

When I wrote reviews of their jerky, the company sent me samples of their meat sticks, but I wasn't able to review them right away, since I was still planning to build a separate website to review meat sticks. It took me several months to build this site, but now that I'm here, on with the reviews...

These "Big Buffalo" sticks are thicker than most meat sticks, about the thickness of a cigar, and about a foot long.

The package is stamped with a date "Jul 2009", so it seems I'm at the tail end of freshness here.

These sticks have a very soft feel. In fact, they feel rather mushy.

Taking a bite from one of these sticks reveals the same, it's very mushy. It's almost like eating a clump of split pea soup paste straight from the can. Or perhaps, it's comparable to what "buffalo pâté" might be like. It's a very smooth texture, almost as smooth as a meat version of Gerber baby food. The only thing that allows me to handle this Big Buffalo stick is the skin, which keeps that pasty meat from my fingers.

These sticks also contain a good deal of fat, because the roof of my mouth is getting coated with fat, or lard, or whatever it is.

Again, I'll condition that review with the fact that these sticks have reached their "best by" date, so perhaps a fresh stick is much more like a true meat stick.




These sticks don't really taste like meat. They're salty, they have some spiciness to it, a bit of smokiness, and that's about it. The taste is comparable to most meat sticks, but just very mushy and pasty.

On the plus side, they don't leave my fingers oily or wet. They're very clean handling.

If you'd like to try one of these Ole Smokies Big Buffalo, visit Buffalo Bills at...

http://www.bbjerky.com/